Tuesday, February 20, 2018

it was bought with a loan from a bank, which only went with it due to it getting insured, which was immediately cancelled because it was strictly race and not street.

So, the insurance agent lost it. He went to the dealership, who freaked out that now the state insurance commission was getting involved, they got ahold of the buyer, who was already upset that the car had been sold to him without oil.

Or, at least that's the story people are sticking to

So, they ate the cost of the car, and the buyer kept racing it. (See how implausible that is?)

They then took it to the Packard test track and set a closed course record of 148.2 mph and then went to Muroc (a dry lake used in the 1920s before it was closed to the public and El Mirage was chosen) and set a speed of 164 mph

the 91s were incredible until the rules were changed again by AAA, just 3 years later in 1929

I tell you that drivers ed is the great untapped video market... this is where they need to make a tv show. Drivers ed instructors tell the stories and actors re-enact the scenes, just like those History Channel historical battle scenes

another guy is looking to make t-shirts to show his appreciation for Plomb tools

For anyone that isn't familiar with Plomb.... they were a tool company that made very high quality hand tools equal to, or better than Snap On, for earning a living with. Not a lot of flash and snappy looks to the tool boxes, but, since they had to change their name in 1947 to Proto you may not have heard of them, and if you see any, you immediately know those Plomb tools are at least 70 years old